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Chuck Hinman, IJMA No. 014: My Running Days It's Just Me Again 014 My Running Days. The next earlier Chuck Hinman story Funniest Weddings Is Chuck Hinman your favorite Sunday with CM columnist, as many tell us? If so, we hope you'll drop him a line by email. Reader comments to CM are appreciated, as are emails directly to Mr. Hinman at: charles.hinman@sbcglobal.net By Chuck Hinman In 1960 I had some mysterious chest pains. My doctor ordered an EKG and it showed I had had a heart attack. It was mild but I was only 38. We had already adopted our son Paul and were waiting for a baby girl (Mary Ann) to complete our family. It was no time for me to have health problems. The doctor warned if I expected to be around to see our kids graduate from college, I had better get some kind of daily exercise program going. My work at Phillips Petroleum Company was sedentary and not conducive to good health. That was in 1960 and exercising wasn't commonplace as it soon became. Soooooooooo -- I got a book called the U.S. Air Force Exercise Handbook. In addition to exercising like in basic military training, it encouraged weight lifting AND running. I started out by getting out on Highway 75 by our place and running two miles each morning before I went to work. Running was so new and unknown, there were several motorists including truck drivers who stopped and offered me a ride. They thought I was in trouble! Several stopped and told me they missed seeing me on a certain date and wondered if I was ill. Isn't that a kick? I did that for years all by myself. In subsequent years as more people began to jog, I changed to taking my lunch period, going to Phillips gymnasium and locker room, changing into jogging clothes and running two miles during the noon hour, going back to the locker room, showering and changing into my business clothes and returning to work. Sometimes I would have only an apple for lunch and a barrel of water. I ran from the Phillips locker room out 5th street to Marie's Night Club and back each day, rain or shine. I did NOT miss because of weather. I admit I looked foolish running in the rain. Several times I stood at attention as a funeral procession streamed by. I was the pioneer around Bartlesville in jogging and a lot of people know and recognize me to this day because they had seen me huffing and puffing. The only thing I gave up was playing cards during the noon hour! I never kept a log of how many miles I ran but it wouldn't be hard to estimate. I ran two miles, five days a week from the time I was 38 until I retired at 64. My eyes and ears are failing but my heart is strong as an ox! Doctors in later years marvel at my cholesterol and all those other readings with funny names. They credit it to my running days! I had arthroscopy surgery on one knee while we were in Houston. I was in my 60's. I tried to increase my mileage from 2 to 5 miles a day, running with a friend who liked to run longer distances. He was probably 70 at the time but a great runner. That change in distance blew my knee or I would probably be running to this day. I credit running all those years for keeping me younger at heart and mind than I would have been had I played cards during the noon hour and puffed away on cigarettes. I gave up smoking when I started running. I felt like a million dollars experiencing what runners call a "runner's high"! I had them every day for years. It was obviously good life insurance for me. I conservatively estimate that in my running days I ran 3/4ths of the way around the world. That would put me somewhere on The Great Wall of China when I quit running because of a lame knee. Even so, my most recent blood work showed exceptional for a person my age. The doctor was right in 1960 -- a vigorous exercise program (especially running) has allowed me as a young man with a heart attack in his resume, to see not only his kids but his granddaughter graduate from college. Thank you Lord! This story was posted on 2010-05-30 09:32:01
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